Sela Ward, 54, returns to prime-time television this fall, filling Melina Kanakaredes' spot on "CSI: NY." CBS' popular police procedural returns Friday night for its sixth season.

Tell me about your character Jo Danville in "CSI: NY."

I love her. She's smart and she's a little artsy and edgy. To me, she's a character very different from the FBI crime investigator world. Our background is that she has come from Virginia — the FBI in D.C. — and her field of expertise is DNA evidence and her philosophical point of view is everyone is innocent until the science proves otherwise. She also has background in criminal psychology, so that's very interesting to me and fun to play.